Safety Training

MICHAEL ELIZALDE

**** ********* ****** ***********, ** 93305

661-***-**** *************@****.***

SAFETY SPECIALIST

Hands on safety specialist with 5+ years’ experience in areas of occupational health and safety, emergency management services, emergency action plans, safety prevention programs and risk management. I have maintained successful safety programs and have always worked to achieve operational excellence and provide the safest work environment. I truly believe in the ability to achieve an incident free work place. Safety is still in its infancy stage as a whole but has already showed huge improvement throughout industries. As the safety culture continues to change and evolve I pride myself in knowing that I will be right alongside with it in its pursuit of excellence.

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

● Ability to design, direct and implement effective safety programs.

● Develop site specific safety programs.

● Quality experience in assessing and monitoring jobs throughout various facilities and fields, with the impeccable ability to process adherence for industry guidelines and maintain the highest quality safety standards.

● Respected decision maker for having sound judgment in critical situations.

● Conducted audits, inspections, safety assessment and sampling.

● Involved in investigations, recommended corrective measures and developed new safe operating procedures; also made revisions to current procedures all in the pursuit of operational excellence and the prevention of a repeat occurrence.

● Drug free work place program; assisted in UA collection and administering breath alcohol testing as well as witness.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

● Risk assessment, leadership and effectiveness, managing safe operations and OSHA--Cal OSHA guidelines and regulations.

● Confines Space Operations; general compliance, entrant and attendant.

● Rescue Operations--Tier 1 high angle rope rescue, Tier 2 low angle rescue (non-complex system), rigging complex systems, working in IDHL atmosphere, packaging victim(s), development of highly detailed, intelligently designed and extremely effective emergency plans of action; i.e. evacuation, rescue, emergency management systems/services.

● Respiratory protection; half-face, full face, APR, SAR, hip packs, escape packs, SCBA's and supplied air operations. Conducted fit testing for company employees and also as a third party.

● CERTIFIED: EMT(Link2Life), CPR(Red Cross), First Aid(Red Cross) AED(Red Cross), CSR Tier 1(CMC) CSR Tier 2 (D2000--ABC), High Angle Rope Technician l/ll(CMC)

Calibrating, repairing and operating Gas detection monitors and systems. Extremely knowledgeable of all makes and models.

● Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. I have also worked with Adobe.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

● Coordinated and developed safety meetings for over 75 employees.

● Effectively conducted new hire orientations as well as re-hire and transfer employees.

● Member to client implemented safety teams involved in performing audits, compliance inspections and behavioral based observations; discussed findings both positive and negative, went on follow up visits and jointly implemented corrective measures.

● Effective working with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.

● Bilingual--fluent in Spanish (the ability to read, write, and speak Spanish has been heavily beneficial to my career. Have delivered comprehensive safety training to Spanish speaking employees and have acted as a translator on many occasions and successfully solved any language barrier issues).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MISWACO JUNE 30, 2011- SEPTEMBER 2011

BAKERSFIELD, CA

QHSE II

Key Results:

Provide safety coverage for over 200 employees; weekly safety meetings, Company policy& procedure compliance, Industry standards and practices, Daily site visits, audits, BBS observation, hazard identification program, accident/incident reporting, handling investigations, Job site planning, record keeping and driving logs.

Met all clients request and maintain good working relationships with all my contacts.

Attend all safety sensitive meetings, presentations and focus groups. Both company and client implemented.

Assist with the new hire orientation process.

Handle Root Cause Analysis.

Have maintained a successful track record and have stayed on course in my pursuit of an incident free work place driven by the goal or operational excellence.

JACOBS FIELD SERVICES DEC. 2010-MAY 2011 BAKERSFIELD, CA

SAFETY TECHNICIAN, LEVEL 3

Key Results:

Conducted New-Hire and Re-Hire Orientations for 20 employees. Employees were also required to take a test which I would look over to gage weak areas in need of coaching and mentoring.

Daily field audits and assessments.

Developed new PPM’s (Process Picture Maps) and also revised them as needed. (Operating a forklift/gradall, operating a man lift, hooking up to water buffalo, towing a trailer and hooking up to pipe dolly I developed or helped develop.)

Responsible for calibrating monitors monthly and handling all repairs.

Inventory control; In charge of ordering supplies and distributing as needed.

Compliance and On-Site training; (Respiratory Protection, Fit Testing, Fresh Air, SCBA, Confined Space Entrant & Attendant and Defensive Driving are some of the more critical training that I handled.)

Handled accident or incident investigation. (Involved with 3 investigations.)

Conducted on-site random Drug screens; UA collection and Breath Alcohol Testing.

Handled all Recordkeeping for site.

Member of Chevron IFO team and BBS committee

Data entry; generated weekly and monthly safety reports.

AMERICAN SAFETY SERVICES INC JAN. 2007-DEC. 2010 BAKERSFIELD, CA LEAD SAFETY TECHNICIAN/SUPERVISER

Key Results:

Training of new employees; also in-charge of compliance and competency for all employees.

Developed and implemented new SOP for onsite rescue work including: number of personnel required, documentation and rescue procedure/emergency plan of action.

Developed and implemented 5 SOP’s for working on oil rigs including: rigging up gas detection system, rigging down gas detection system, service or repairing gas detection system, responding to alarming system, inspecting location for presence of gas/H2S and clearing site/safe for operations.

Conducted training and testing for other companies including: fit-testing (half-face, full-face, APR and SAR), H2S, Confined Space Entry (Entrant and Attendant), fresh air, SCBA.

Assisted with Tier 2 CSR training and CPR/First Aid training held for other companies.

Involved with the scheduling of jobs and daily operations.

Implemented BBS program. First for the company.

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